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A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.
John Henry Newman
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John Henry Newman
Age: 89 †
Born: 1801
Born: February 21
Died: 1890
Died: August 11
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After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.
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Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.
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Great things are done by devotion to one idea.
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I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it, who know so much of history that they can defend it.
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Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
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Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
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Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
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It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears, Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
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The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.
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Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
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The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.
John Henry Newman
Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of John Henry Newman, Priest, Teacher, Tractarian, 1890 It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in spite of incidental errors.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.
John Henry Newman
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.
John Henry Newman
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
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All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.
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To discover and to teach are distinct functions they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.
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I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.
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